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Freelance Bidding Sites: Another Lemons Market (workfromhomemomma.com)
1 point by _csoo on May 28, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



"I think my biggest problem with bidding sites is that they drive down the rates. I see writers offering themselves for fifty cents an article and Virtual Assistants charging $25 for a day’s worth of work. Are we so desperate to earn money we’re willing to settle for less than slave wages? I don’t know of anyone who would flip burgers for such a paltry sum, but yet many will happily accept next to nothing to get a proverbial foot in the door."

Slaves don't get paid any wages. That's why they are slaves.

Why not use it to your advantage and hire the cheap people instead of be one?


Wikipedia page on the Market for Lemons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemons_market




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